British Touring Car Championship series director Alan Gow says he believes the 2018 field boasts the best strength in depth it has enjoyed since the turn of the century. Speaking at the championship’s media day launch at Donington Park, Gow said the quality of teams and drivers on show pointed to another great season of racing, … More »
Dunlop has announced the breakdown of which tyres will be available to drivers across the majority of the BTCC’s 60th anniversary season. As has been the case for a number of years, drivers will be forced to run two different compound of tyres at nine of the ten events, with the only exception being Thruxton … More »
West Surrey Racing has revealed the revised livery that Colin Turkington and Rob Collard will run for the 2018 BTCC season. The pair, who will once again compete under the Team BMW banner, will run in a colourscheme that is similar to that seen on track in 2017 – when the team won both the … More »
DTM’s organiser, ITR, has announced the new technical and sporting regulations for the 2018 season, some of which will be tested tomorrow until at the pre-season test at Vallelunga, Italy, by all three manufacturers. The 2017 regulations were intended to be the start of a new three-year homologation cycle, but the abolition of performance weights … More »
The Team Dynamics-run Honda squad has taken the wraps off the all-new Civic Type R that it will campaign in the 2018 British Touring Car Championship on the second day of a specially-organised group test in Spain. Dynamics is one of a number of teams to have headed to the Parcmotor Castellolí circuit near Barcelona … More »
Tom Boardman will make a return to the BTCC for the 2018 season after being confirmed as the first driver in one of the two AmDtuning.com-run MG6 GTs. Boardman last raced in the series back in 2011 with his family-run Special Tuning Racing team, securing a maiden win at Knockhill en-route to eleventh in the … More »
Three-time BTCC drivers’ champion is looking forward to his new challenge in 2018, leaving the Honda programme in the UK after an eight-year consecutive stint with the Team Dynamics-run team, and joining Team WRT as an Audi Sport factory driver in the new World Touring Car Cup. Shedden’s first taste of TCR machinery came at … More »
Aiden Moffat has confirmed that he will continue to race Laser Tools Racing’s Mercedes A Class during the 2018 BTCC season. The young Scottish driver secured two victories at the wheel of the car last season and had been linked with a number of drives over the course of the off-season – both within the … More »
Brett Smith will graduate to the BTCC on a full-time basis in 2018 after Eurotech Racing confirmed that the MINI Challenge champion will complete its driver line-up for the season ahead. Smith replaced father Jeff for the second half of 2017 after he was sidelined as a result of the injuries he sustained in the … More »
Andrew Jordan is set to remain part of the BTCC grid until at least the end of the 2021 season after announcing an extended deal with primary sponsor Pirtek. Jordan’s relationship with the sponsor dates back as far as 2005, and has seen him competing in the BTCC under the Pirtek Racing banner since 2010 … More »